Course Descriptions

CHRISTIAN MINISTRY LEADERSHIP

Classroom

Classroom cohorts meet one evening a week from 6-10 p.m.

CMN 403 Personal Leadership Assessment and Development

This course will establish biblical principles and requirements for leadership, depict biblical examples of how God develops leaders for His ministry, provide opportunity for students to apply this understanding to their own lives through self-assessment of leadership characteristics, and guide students in recognizing and describing God′s calling and development of their own lives for a particular field of ministry.

3 Credits

CMN 404 Old Testament Principles for Ministry

This course will be an introduction to Old Testament interpretation. Furthermore, special attention will be paid to the application of ministry principles found in the Old Testament to a variety of community ministry settings.

3 Credits

CMN 406 The Church and Its Community

This course will examine the role of the congregation as a moral agent for positive change in the community. The course will be divided into three phases of discussion: (1) Developing a theological framework for understanding community (heirs and the disinherited), giving special attention to the faith community as a support group; (2) Overcoming obstacles to community building and exploring resources and strategies for community organizing; and (3) Strategies for reconciliation and conflict resolution in small groups and in addressing public issues.

3 Credits

CMN 407

New Testament Principles for Ministry

A study of the book of Acts with practical application for ministry today.

3 credits

CMN 409 Principles of Family Ministry

The focus of this course is on an understanding of the family from a biblical perspective and the development of an underlying biblical theology of family ministry.

3 Credits

CMN 410 Leadership for Mission and Ministry

This course will examine the biblical foundations for the church and its ministry, review the biblical concept of leadership, explain how to discern and develop spiritual gifts, describe selection and training of leaders, develop a biblical philosophy of ministry and practice formulating strategies and programs which are deliberately rooted in such a biblical philosophy.

3 Credits

CMN 416

Theology and Practice of Evangelism

Adult students in this course will explore both the theological underpinnings of evangelism as well as explore various methods for doing evangelism, with a view toward both becoming more articulate in sharing their own faith and becoming more equipped to giving leadership to an evangelistic effort in their own communities.

3 credits

ADL 470 Career and Professional Development

In this course, students will reflect on their learning and professional development throughout their academic and professional endeavors. They will develop a portfolio of accomplishments in the program, as well as key professional documents that are typical of a person looking to advance in their chosen profession.

3 Credits

ADL 432 Research and Resources

This course encourages students to develop familiarity with the literature in their major field of study with an emphasis on information literacy. Students will identify, access, retrieve, and summarize respected information in the field that is relevant to a research topic. In addition to identifying themes in literature, students will compare, contrast and evaluate the major perspectives that emerge from their investigation.

3 Credits

ADL 445 Theory and Practice of Adult Learning

In this course adult students will explore several theories of adult learning, including the Kolb model, and then students will apply one of the models to their own experience of learning. This course will have application both to the student′s own self-discovery but also to the work that the student may perform as a leader in a workplace or ministry setting.

3 Credits

BBL 408 Foundations of Christian Thought

This course explores the phenomenon of “worldview” as the assumptions that everyone has about reality—a vision for life that drives how people view the nature of the world, the problems of the world, the remedy for the world, and the future of the world. And, this course challenges students to critique their own worldview in light of the worldview presented in the Bible. At the end of the course, students will be equipped to examine their own life and work in light of the biblical worldview.

3 Credits

HMT 411 Humanities

Students will explore the humanities as a manifestation of human responses to the Cultural Mandate – to “rule over the earth and subdue it”. The humanities reflect the cultural values of the culture from which they spring, therefore students will be equipped with the theological and philosophical categories needed to properly discern the truth (and untruth) of the cultural messages embedded in the humanities. On the one hand, students will be equipped to appreciate the common grace truth embedded in the humanities, but on the other hand, students will be equipped with the biblical categories of antithesis needed to discern where those truths fall short. At the end of the day, students will be equipped to engage both aesthetic considerations and “truth considerations” in the humanities.